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THE ILLIISrOIS FARMER. 



aH architecture congenial to tlic religious 

 sentiment, but let it bo paid for before it is 

 dedicated, and let it be thronged from the by- 

 ways and hedges as well as from other quar- 

 ters. AVo like, indeed, the cathedrals of Eng- 

 land; the presence of grandeur is ennobling 

 and will scarcely perish in any dayj reared 

 high above the surrounding scenes and conse- 

 Gratr.d to upward things, they arc especially 

 calculated to enlarge our reverence, — repro- 

 seriting past centuries and destined to endure: 

 through the conn n<r ones, tliev iu)prf<^s>is v i'h 

 a sense of oar own littleness, and compass the 



religious sentiment as effectually as any other 

 outward symbol can do it. Let tliom bo 

 open, we say, as in Catholic countries, on tlu; 

 week days, not for throngs of worshippers 

 under the influence of excitement, but for 

 each individual soul, on bended knee, to gather 

 stij'ength, in the utmost quietness, for the 

 diUi<?S that may lie before it, in the heat and 

 bustle anfl conflict of everyday lift, and wb'icli 

 would relieve the Sabbath, and make it niorc 

 a day of rest as the Scriptures designnl il, 

 than one of long continued, oft repeated, la- 

 borious public worship. Churches then 

 should be an ofiering to the Most High, and 

 placed beyond the reach of any criticism or 

 extravagance. It is but meagre justice that 

 the clergyman be well paid, for he is dei)en- 

 dent upon our generosity, is ox])ccted to re- 

 ciprocate our hospitality, and is otherwise 

 ejcposcd to contingencies, — fearfully great in 

 these days of clivid^id opinion, — and to ex- 

 peiises peculiar to his profession. 



We are extravagant in our vices — vice is 

 expensive — it destroys our health, wastes 

 the mental and bodily vigor, and let youth 

 reflect that the repentant jirodigal is a jnior 

 specimen of humanity, side by side with him 

 who has never swerved, "vvhoso pure mind and 

 clastic step, and firm resolve have civen him 

 the Kingdom, — for the Scripture says, what 

 theologians do not so easily learn, that the 

 Kingdom of Heaven is within us. Fear 

 (rod and keep his commandments, provide 

 them in their youth, before the evil day eonus 

 when thou canst find no pleasure in them, — 

 for repentance, we repeat again, has little 

 naturalness, is little less than a blemish after 

 a bad spent life. David, King of Israel, was 

 not permitted to build the Great Temple be- 

 cause he had been a man of war, had passed 

 a life too little hallowed to such purjioses, — 

 could not draw from its earlier reminiscences 

 sufficient purity to sustain him in such a work. 



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Fryc's Gang-Plow. 



A public trial of this jdow took place near 

 Tacusa Station, Christian county, on the 23d 

 ult. After the exhibition a meeting was 

 held of persons present, to express their 

 views of the operations of the plow. Messrs. 

 11. Ilinchley, F. C. Edwards and Y>. l\. 

 Plawley, were appointed a committee to draft 

 resolutions. They reported the following, 

 which were adopted and signed by all the 

 persons present, besides the officers of the 

 meeting : 



Resolred, That we, the undersigned, have 

 witnessed with great pleasure and satisfac- 

 tion, this day, the operations of Jesse Fryc's 



ncw^y invented Gang-Plow, near Tacusa 

 Station,. Chri^-tian county, and that we feel 

 fully confident that it is an excellent agricul- 

 tural invention, economizing labor and time 

 more than one half. 



lli'iiolrp(J^ That the plows, performing as 

 well in heavy hazel thicket as in smooth 

 prairie, justify the opinion that they are supe- 

 rior in every respect to any otlicr plow. 



RcsolrrJ, That this plow fills a desidera- 

 tum long felt by farmers, especially those 

 oltiTiiting prAirio land. 



h'ctio/rcj, Tliat MO- hcf'rtiTy recommend 

 this plow to the notice and use of our fellow- 

 farmers and agriculturists generally, and do 

 believe they will find it to their" interest to 

 purcha.se and use said plows. 



JicaolrciJ, That these proceedings be pub- 

 lished in the Week/// IlcraJd, of Pana, the 

 Prairie Farmer, of Chicago, and the Illinois 

 Farmer, of Springfield. 



B. SMITH, Pros't. 



M. S. BEcruvtTn, Soc'y. 



Why is it? 



Editor of the Fanner: After an ob- 

 servation not now short, I have noticed 

 that English women — I mean women of 

 the middle classes of life, born and 

 brought up in England — in physical 

 constitution and in energy of character, 

 are, as a class, far superior to the wo- 

 men of America. It appears to me that 

 this fa^t i? so obvious, that it will hard- 

 ly be disputed. Why is this so? 



This is fin important question. Is 

 our climate more enervating than that 

 of England, or is the physical education 

 of females there of such a character as 

 to giVe them constitutions so superior to 

 those of females of the same classes in 

 our country? 



Mr. Editor, it has never been my for- 

 tune to place my feet ujion a foreign 

 sliorc. Some of your readers have un- 

 doubtedly done this; and, indeed, some 

 of them were born and lived to mature 

 age in England, and can answer the in- 

 quiries embraced in this communication. 

 Will some one do so? Just at this time 

 I feel a great interest in this subject. 

 There arc young females about me that 

 I would wish to see possessed of good 

 constitutions as they grow up, — capable 

 of withstanding the ordinary duties of 

 life, without exhibiting that lassitude, 

 that delicacy of health, that breaking 

 doAvn of constitutions, and all that fol- 

 lows, which we often witness. Will 

 some one enlightened on this subject, 

 speak out in your Farmer? M. 11. 



Soft Maple Seed-Tree Pedlars. •' 

 Editor Farmer: — I noticed in the 

 last Farmer "that soft maple seeds are 

 now mature." Allow me to say that it is 

 many weeks since they were mature, 

 and already they are up from six to 

 twelve inches, as I have to-day seen on 

 the Illinois river bottom. I also hare 

 about one acre, which are all up nicely, 

 about six inches. The seeds were gath- 



ered June 1st, which is late; May 20th 

 is usually late enough in this locality to 

 go for them; they can usually be found 

 at thrit date along the margin of theriv- 

 er or bayous, in tirmtows,". iuM^fd they 

 have floated to the shore after falling ift 

 the water, and can be gathered in wagon 

 loads with little time and trouble. They 

 should be planted immediately on well 

 prepared ground, and receive good after 

 culture, whicli will give you a growth of 

 about two feet the first season. They 

 will £ticcced .well on very wet or very dry 

 ground ! l^'armcrt-: en the prairies" might 

 have all their sloughs and wet laiid riforfe' 

 profitably employed in growing this 

 valuable timber, (for fuel) than their 

 K^est land in the usual crops of the farm. 



I have trees from seed which were 

 gathered and planted May 24th, 1855, 

 from one to two and a half inches in 

 diameter, and from six to fourteen feet 

 high, and have seen a tree ten years 

 from the seed, foui'teen iriclies in diame- 

 ter. . , . -^ 



So mtTeli for Soft Maples, l^ovv foT 

 Tree Pedlars. 1 see you have given a 

 caution in the July number, out ihnt is 

 not half enough. It is my opinion that 

 not one individual who has ordei'ed trees 

 from Eastern nurseries, of traveling 

 agents, but has been wickedly imposed 

 upon, by getting worthless trees or 

 shrubs; in half of the instances not true 

 to the name, and those that were true, 

 much Inferior to the kinds we might get 

 at home of honest men. Last fall one 

 of these canvassers was through here 

 and sold many trees or shrubs. They 

 came on, and now, not otio man who 

 bought (so far as I know) is satisfied 

 Avith his purchase. We have not half 

 the value we might have had from our 

 own nurserymen. Edwards of Lamoile, 

 Bryant of Princeton, Aldrich of Arispee, 

 and many others, whom wc know "?fould 

 not cheat us, but somehow we do love to 

 be gulled. 



This is not all the mischief done by 

 the tree pedlars. Many or all the boxes 

 Avere filled with straw mixed with 

 Canada Thistles. Should we get this 

 pest generally diffused throughout one 

 country, it Avould over-balance all the 

 benefit, though the trees were a gratuity 

 to us, that have been sent us from the 

 other side of the Lakes for the last ten 

 years. W. A. PENNELL. 



Granville, Putnam Co., 111., July 22. 



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•'lie was an ludulgeiit Parent." 



Editor of the Farmer : — I have often 

 read this sentiment in the notices of 

 deceased persons. "He was an indul- 

 gent parent !" What does this mean? 

 Is it intended to convey tlie idea that 

 children should be indulged in all their 

 whims and caprices and tastes, and, I 

 may say, vices? because the Bible says, 

 and we knoAv that the remark is true 



